At last... the riveting, bloody, and ultra-stylish Lone Wolf and Cub series, together with the classic Shogun Assassin (all based on the perennially popular manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima) available together in one boxset, officially licenced from Toho by Eureka, fully uncut, and freshly remastered.
Filled with memorable set pieces, iconic characters and violent action, this series more than lives up to its reputation as a pinnacle of Japanese exploitation cinema whose musings on the meaning of honour in a lawless world still resonate today. In White Heaven In Hell alone, Ogami Itt' kills 150 people onscreen, the highest body count for a single character in a single film in cinema history.
In America, the first two Lone Wolf instalments were re-edited into the legendary Shogun Assassin, the film that single-handedly created legions of new fans of Japanese action cinema upon its release. Originally prosecuted as a video nasty in the 1980s, this hugely influential thrill-ride is to be released on UK DVD on 16th November 2009 by Eureka, along with the original Lone Wolf and Cub series, gorgeously remastered in their original aspect ratio.
The Lone Wolf & Cub Complete Box Set will contain the following films:
- Disc 1: Sword Of Vengeance (1972, Kenji Misumi);
- Disc 2: Baby Cart At The River Styx (1972, Kenji Misumi);
- Disc 3: Baby Cart To Hades (1972, Kenji Misumi);
- Disc 4: Baby Cart In Peril (1972, Buichi Saito);
- Disc 5: Baby Cart In The Land Of Demons (1973, Kenji Misumi);
- Disc 6: White Heaven In Hell (1974, Yoshiyuki Kuroda);
- Disc 7: Shogun Assassin (1980, Robert Houston).
Each film will be accompanied by its original Japanese trailer and linear notes by Tom Mes.
Lone Wolf & Cub Complete Box Set will retail at £49.99. |